There is a new metal smithing magazine, Australian Goldsmith. Stay away - the people there are jerks.

I was looking over their website, wondering if there was a way to buy a single issue instead of subscribing. I came across their "News" sessions and I was very unimpressed - it read like something that Google translate had "written". For example, "For as long time, 1967 to be more exact, I entered the family jewelry business"

I decided to send them an email, mentioning how disappointing that is and how I hoped it was just a hiccough (ahem) since they had only printed their first issue a month ago.

There is a new metal smithing magazine, Australian Goldsmith. Stay away - the people there are jerks.

I was looking over their website, wondering if there was a way to buy a single issue instead of subscribing. I came across their "News" sessions and I was very unimpressed - it read like something that Google translate had "written". For example, "For as long time, 1967 to be more exact, I entered the family jewelry business"

I decided to send them an email, mentioning how disappointing that is and how I hoped it was just a hiccough (ahem) since they had only printed their first issue a month ago.

Sorry, nothing in the world would make me subscribe after that. I am irritated to be motivated to spread that little gem around the internet to their potential subscribers.

...they Google Translate-d their response to you? Did you work out what it said?

PeterYou have to delete the text and add other ...This should be corrected by Süd ... "

So Piotr is Peter, seems ok as far as names equivalents goes, but I don't know where Süd comes from and I get that in english, french and portuguese.I'd say that answer wasn't meant for you lady-disdain

lady_disdain, I have to agree with Carotte that this message wasn't meant for you. My guess is that your email got to the web site administrator, and he sent an email to the content people about doing something to the site text. Somewhere during the conversation, someone accidentally addressed an email to you instead of (or in addition to) Piotr. I actually think it's a good sign that a discussion about text is happening, because it's evidence that they're taking your comment seriously.

As a side note, from context I got the feeling that "Süd" is an abbreviation for a day, like one of us commenting about getting something done by "Sat" where a translator program wouldn't be able to come up with a reasonable conversion for such a thing.

I ordered something from Amazon which turned out to be not what I wanted, so I had to return it. The only option was UPS - I don't think I've ever actually shipped anything from other than the post office, so I wouldn't know where to go. Luckily, Amazon/UPS offered home pick-up - all I had to do was to have it in a box and they'd show up with a shipping label and everything, so it was free. Sounds good!

Yeah, the confirmation email I got told me they'd be by my house sometime in the next three days, and to have the box ready. That's "sometime 8 AM - 8 PM," not any specific hours, and no, they didn't call ahead or give any warning. I was lucky that the driver did show up the next day at a time I was home - I wasn't planning to sit around for three days straight waiting for them!

Around where I live, there are several "UPS Store." In fact, there's one right across the street. I just returned something to Amazon by printing the label, taping it to the package and dropping it at the UPS Store.

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I use the UPS store near my office frequently. They are wonderful! I have had excellent results with UPS as a whole. FedEx never knocks or rings the doorbell, just slaps the slip on the door and drops the package off at the office. I prefer UPS by far.

I just received an email that my request to have my FOUR band trailers worked on was received. I don't have a band trailer. I sent it to the music department's general email just in case it was misdirected.

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I was specifically told to drop it off at a UPS drop box, that dropping off at a store or having UPS pickup would incur a $6 charge

Of course one of the darn boxes won't fit in a UPS drop box, sigh...

So can I really drop it off at a store?

That's what I did and there was no charge. I'm in the US, California to be exact. I just tell the folks at the UPS Store that it's a pre-paid shipment, they take it, ask me if I want a receipt and we're done. I do this with recycling HP toner cartridges, too. HP provides a pre-paid return label that I put on the box and just drop it off.

Nobody's ever tried to charge me for dropping at the UPS store. Perhaps you local store (they're a franchise) has an extra charge? Who told you that this charge exists?

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I was specifically told to drop it off at a UPS drop box, that dropping off at a store or having UPS pickup would incur a $6 charge

Of course one of the darn boxes won't fit in a UPS drop box, sigh...

So can I really drop it off at a store?

Who told you there would be a $6 charge? Did Amazon tell you that or did someone from UPS tell you that? If it has the appropriate Amazon shipping label on it, there should be no charge at all for dropping it off at their place of business.

You just tape the label Amazon emailed you to the box and walk in and put it on their counter. They say "Okay, thanks. It will go out today" and you go home. No charge. No hassle.

I once shipped a tire with prepaid postage in a UPS store. I rolled it in, they noticed I had the tag and took it from me and I had to ask if I needed to do anything because they didn't even bother saying anything. And I didn't - I just walked out.

There is a new metal smithing magazine, Australian Goldsmith. Stay away - the people there are jerks.

I was looking over their website, wondering if there was a way to buy a single issue instead of subscribing. I came across their "News" sessions and I was very unimpressed - it read like something that Google translate had "written". For example, "For as long time, 1967 to be more exact, I entered the family jewelry business"

I decided to send them an email, mentioning how disappointing that is and how I hoped it was just a hiccough (ahem) since they had only printed their first issue a month ago.

Sorry, nothing in the world would make me subscribe after that. I am irritated to be motivated to spread that little gem around the internet to their potential subscribers.

...they Google Translate-d their response to you? Did you work out what it said?

PeterYou have to delete the text and add other ...This should be corrected by Süd ... "

So Piotr is Peter, seems ok as far as names equivalents goes, but I don't know where Süd comes from and I get that in english, french and portuguese.I'd say that answer wasn't meant for you lady-disdain

It looks like it might be Polish or one of the other Slavic languages that doesn't use Cyrillic. Sorry, I don't speak it, just kinda-recognize it when I see it.

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There is a new metal smithing magazine, Australian Goldsmith. Stay away - the people there are jerks.

I was looking over their website, wondering if there was a way to buy a single issue instead of subscribing. I came across their "News" sessions and I was very unimpressed - it read like something that Google translate had "written". For example, "For as long time, 1967 to be more exact, I entered the family jewelry business"

I decided to send them an email, mentioning how disappointing that is and how I hoped it was just a hiccough (ahem) since they had only printed their first issue a month ago.

Sorry, nothing in the world would make me subscribe after that. I am irritated to be motivated to spread that little gem around the internet to their potential subscribers.

...they Google Translate-d their response to you? Did you work out what it said?

PeterYou have to delete the text and add other ...This should be corrected by Süd ... "

So Piotr is Peter, seems ok as far as names equivalents goes, but I don't know where Süd comes from and I get that in english, french and portuguese.I'd say that answer wasn't meant for you lady-disdain

It looks like it might be Polish or one of the other Slavic languages that doesn't use Cyrillic. Sorry, I don't speak it, just kinda-recognize it when I see it.

It does seem Slavic but I am no linguist. If it weren't an Australian magazine, run by an Australian team (according to a friend who wrote an article for it), I wouldn't have raised an eyebrow. Considering the situation, I am guessing it was deliberate.

" If it weren't an Australian magazine, run by an Australian team (according to a friend who wrote an article for it), I wouldn't have raised an eyebrow. Considering the situation, I am guessing it was deliberate."

It seems like such a weird message, unless your name is Peter or some permutation of it. I'd still guess that the email wasn't meant for you. Given your new information I can see a joke getting misdirected (email from you says that the web site looks like Google Translate was used, and so the people involved start joking each other by using Google to translate the discussion into assorted languages) but the content of the message seems tightly directed, relevant to fixing the error you pointed out and not worded like an email you'd send outside the company, so I still have trouble seeing it as a deliberate dig at you.